Question Internal SSD won't show as boot device unless shut down fully

[dan7933]

I've been dealing with this issue for a while now, where my Spectrix internal SSD doesn't show as a boot device. Whenever I restart my computer, it will boot back up saying no boot device was found. I will go into the BIOS and look for it, but the device will simply not be there. What I have to do every time is shut down my computer fully, and turn it back on. However, it still doesn't remember it as a default boot device. I have to go into the BIOS, select that as the device I want to boot into, and it'll bring me to my OS. Essentially, I cannot restart my computer and every time I want to get back into Windows, I have to go back into the BIOS.

It's a quite annoying issue, even though it's quite simple amateur security that prevents others from looking around my PC while I'm gone, but I would like to know if this is a common issue with those small on-motherboard SSD's, and if there's a fix. Thank you!

 

[dwd999]

I've been dealing with this issue for a while now, where my Spectrix internal SSD doesn't show as a boot device. Whenever I restart my computer, it will boot back up saying no boot device was found. I will go into the BIOS and look for it, but the device will simply not be there. What I have to do every time is shut down my computer fully, and turn it back on. However, it still doesn't remember it as a default boot device. I have to go into the BIOS, select that as the device I want to boot into, and it'll bring me to my OS. Essentially, I cannot restart my computer and every time I want to get back into Windows, I have to go back into the BIOS.

It's a quite annoying issue, even though it's quite simple amateur security that prevents others from looking around my PC while I'm gone, but I would like to know if this is a common issue with those small on-motherboard SSD's, and if there's a fix. Thank you!

How old is the battery on the motherboard; does it retain your other bios settings? Perhaps it needs to be replaced? With some motherboards, enabling Virtualization sometimes helps the rebooting process since it flushes the system memory.